‘Don’t Make False Allegations Against the Folk Industry’: Janu Liri

The controversy surrounding folk dancers Eshwar Sai and Madhuri Rathod has sparked widespread discussion and trolling on social media. Amid the reactions, folk dancer Janu Liri has appealed to people not to generalise individual matters and portray them as issues concerning the entire folk industry.

Janu Liri said folk artists have been working hard and enduring several challenges and humiliations to preserve and promote folk traditions. She urged people to distinguish between personal matters and the wider folk-art community, stressing that the actions or controversies involving a few individuals should not be used to make allegations against the entire industry.